Because the game still has 'full value' when you re-sell it. The bits have not changed, the game is still the same. The car loses at least a few thousands in value the minute you take it out of the dealer's yard.
This is why they want to add this 'feature'. To make the game lose value on the second sale. Looking at it that way, and seeing third parties making money only by reselling, I can only approve.
Groundworks is actually just an interface for Nagios. It was very straightforward to set up. the Dude is an excellent Windows alternative. I'll try to look at Cacti.
Right. But CD-r wasn't the new technology format. It was the CD. You equipped yourself with means of creating more CDs after the medium itself was successful. Same with DVDs. I should have mentioned the 'consumer' part. 'DVD players were becoming common'. (wow.. Bluray burners are less than 400$? I was about to write: let's say you buy a bluray burner for 4k$ now, could you justify the investment? Make it worth it? but at 350 for a decent burner..)
It's never a good financial decision to be an early adopter of a new media technology. You always pay more and get screwed on features. It all depends how much the "look how cool I am" factor is worth for you.
It's a gaming device. And it probably plays music too. has the same capitalization. It might not be portable, but I'm pretty sure a lawyer's nose is tingling somewhere.
Wall-E: Best movie ever... featuring a creepy guy who lives in a garbage dump, drugs a girl into unconsciousness after she spurns his romantic advances, ties her up, and takes her bound, comatose body on dates. Naturally, she falls in love with him. Ladies, better keep a close eye on your drinks if you meet anyone that works at Pixar.
Influenced? There are frame-by-frame analysis comparing both movies. And it's not just similar concepts. Sometimes, whole sequences are the same, with the same camera angle.
Right. Rural areas have one postal code becase there's one post office, no residential mailboxes. In towns, you can see what I described: one postal code per side of the street, and sometimes 4-5 residences per code.
Downtown in Montreal or Toronto, it's one postal code per company per building, or sometimes even per floor. And I'm pretty sure some building floors receive more mail in a day than your whole town in a month.
But you're right, I should have been more general.
But postal code are definitely precise enough to, most of the time, get accurate directions on maps.google or any other mapping program.
A postal code in Canada is limited to one side of a street, sometimes even covering only section of it. Technically, that's more than 17.5 million codes. Z9Z 9Z9 With a postal code, you can sometimes be as precise as 5-6 houses. It's nothing like your Zip Codes. (5 digits, 100,000 possibilities)
[[A car is stopped at a traffic light.]] / Driver: This light always takes forever. / Driver: I'd like to smack the idiot who designed this intersection. [[Seen closer, the car now has another person crouching on the hood.]] / Engineer: Hi. / Driver: Who the hell are you? / Engineer: I designed this intersection. Engineer: You're right--I should have just made the light shorter! Never mind the hours of simulation and testing I did. Never mind that this intersection interacts with its neighbors in a complicated way and it took me a week to work out timing sequences that avoided total jams. Engineer: Clearly, I'm a crappy engineer and you have a better solution. / Engineer: Go on. Show me your proposed timings. Driver: Get the hell off my hood before I start driving and fling you into traffic. Engineer: You can't. Light's red. / Driver: Well, when will it change? / Engineer: Tuesday. {{alt: You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think 'some engineer was frustrated while designing this.' It's a little human connection.}} http://xkcd.com/277/
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/ Right click on the field between the word Search and the Go button on the left side, and "Add a keyword for this search". name it wikipedia, keyword w, create in bookmarks.
Replace "wikipedia giraffe" by "w giraffe"
There are some search fields that will not work with it. Like DNSStuff. But what saves you a few keystrokes is always good.
The voice of GLaDOS, Ellen McLain, actually explained this in an interview on Evil Avatar Radio last week. http://www.evilavatarradio.com/?p=117 (a really really good show, live on Monday nights)
During beta testing, people usually left the cube on the first switch they got to, and left it there. So at the end of the level, they had to go all the way back to the beginning of that mission. Someone had the idea of associating that crate as a "friend" you need to protect, so players wouldn't forget their little crate.
Why oh why? It stirred to many emotions it's not funny anymore. (especially with the "I invited all your friends.." line) It really made me hate that computer, but not as much as my beloved SHODAN. She's still #1 on my list. Even if she doesn't offer cake. GLaDOS is a close second.
The choice was Universal Health Care or Cheap Games. Canada obviously made the wrong choice, so next time you're visiting the doctor, remember, you could have had cheap games instead.
-Deadend, on Evil Avatar, discussion about gamecube games being 70$can
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Because the game still has 'full value' when you re-sell it. The bits have not changed, the game is still the same. The car loses at least a few thousands in value the minute you take it out of the dealer's yard.
This is why they want to add this 'feature'. To make the game lose value on the second sale. Looking at it that way, and seeing third parties making money only by reselling, I can only approve.
Easy. Just go to a friend's house who has unlimited internet, save it to a floppy, then bring that floppy to univ with you.
Careful. The end boss is hard.
NEXT!
Thanks, that made total sense.
(I still think BR is this generation's laserdisk, but that's another story)
Groundworks is actually just an interface for Nagios. It was very straightforward to set up.
the Dude is an excellent Windows alternative.
I'll try to look at Cacti.
Right. But CD-r wasn't the new technology format. It was the CD. You equipped yourself with means of creating more CDs after the medium itself was successful. Same with DVDs. I should have mentioned the 'consumer' part. 'DVD players were becoming common'.
(wow.. Bluray burners are less than 400$? I was about to write: let's say you buy a bluray burner for 4k$ now, could you justify the investment? Make it worth it? but at 350 for a decent burner..)
It's never a good financial decision to be an early adopter of a new media technology. You always pay more and get screwed on features.
It all depends how much the "look how cool I am" factor is worth for you.
It's a gaming device. And it probably plays music too. has the same capitalization.
It might not be portable, but I'm pretty sure a lawyer's nose is tingling somewhere.
- But, what does the turtle sits on?
- Another turtle.
- And that turtle?
- It's turtles all the way down
Seen on Superpunch.
Wall-E: Best movie ever... featuring a creepy guy who lives in a garbage dump, drugs a girl into unconsciousness after she spurns his romantic advances, ties her up, and takes her bound, comatose body on dates. Naturally, she falls in love with him.
Ladies, better keep a close eye on your drinks if you meet anyone that works at Pixar.
>Then putting out Walle happy meal toys
Hey, this month's happy meal toy is Tranformers.
No. Wall-e is not a transformer.
http://www.isitchristmas.com/
yesterday: no.
today: no.
Influenced?
There are frame-by-frame analysis comparing both movies. And it's not just similar concepts. Sometimes, whole sequences are the same, with the same camera angle.
Right. Rural areas have one postal code becase there's one post office, no residential mailboxes.
In towns, you can see what I described: one postal code per side of the street, and sometimes 4-5 residences per code.
Downtown in Montreal or Toronto, it's one postal code per company per building, or sometimes even per floor.
And I'm pretty sure some building floors receive more mail in a day than your whole town in a month.
But you're right, I should have been more general.
But postal code are definitely precise enough to, most of the time, get accurate directions on maps.google or any other mapping program.
A postal code in Canada is limited to one side of a street, sometimes even covering only section of it.
Technically, that's more than 17.5 million codes. Z9Z 9Z9
With a postal code, you can sometimes be as precise as 5-6 houses.
It's nothing like your Zip Codes. (5 digits, 100,000 possibilities)
There's no such thing as "poorest postal code".
Actually, you can also lose if you pick either.
They CAN both fail.
Ob. XKCD comic.
[[A car is stopped at a traffic light.]] / Driver: This light always takes forever. / Driver: I'd like to smack the idiot who designed this intersection.
[[Seen closer, the car now has another person crouching on the hood.]] / Engineer: Hi. / Driver: Who the hell are you? / Engineer: I designed this intersection.
Engineer: You're right--I should have just made the light shorter! Never mind the hours of simulation and testing I did. Never mind that this intersection interacts with its neighbors in a complicated way and it took me a week to work out timing sequences that avoided total jams.
Engineer: Clearly, I'm a crappy engineer and you have a better solution. / Engineer: Go on. Show me your proposed timings.
Driver: Get the hell off my hood before I start driving and fling you into traffic.
Engineer: You can't. Light's red. / Driver: Well, when will it change? / Engineer: Tuesday.
{{alt: You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think 'some engineer was frustrated while designing this.' It's a little human connection.}}
http://xkcd.com/277/
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/
Right click on the field between the word Search and the Go button on the left side, and "Add a keyword for this search".
name it wikipedia, keyword w, create in bookmarks.
Replace "wikipedia giraffe" by "w giraffe"
There are some search fields that will not work with it. Like DNSStuff.
But what saves you a few keystrokes is always good.
Yeah, but seriously..
Kiss a car, or step on a snake?
I'm stumped. I don't know what they want me to answer. I Fail!
(/me jumps through the window)
The voice of GLaDOS, Ellen McLain, actually explained this in an interview on Evil Avatar Radio last week.
http://www.evilavatarradio.com/?p=117
(a really really good show, live on Monday nights)
During beta testing, people usually left the cube on the first switch they got to, and left it there. So at the end of the level, they had to go all the way back to the beginning of that mission. Someone had the idea of associating that crate as a "friend" you need to protect, so players wouldn't forget their little crate.
Why oh why? It stirred to many emotions it's not funny anymore. (especially with the "I invited all your friends.." line)
It really made me hate that computer, but not as much as my beloved SHODAN. She's still #1 on my list. Even if she doesn't offer cake. GLaDOS is a close second.
"Hi. I'm from the internet."
"Oh, what part?
Is myspace really that big?
Why would they care, if it just works?
I think I had 5 routers in my neighborhood on channel 6, with default passwords.
I logged on into each and switched them to different channels.
Correct, because if you did you'd be marked "Redundant".
Damn. My salary just took a 10k$ dive.
Sure you can.
Have someone you trust bid 10,000 on your auction.
The choice was Universal Health Care or Cheap Games. Canada obviously made the wrong choice, so next time you're visiting the doctor, remember, you could have had cheap games instead.
-Deadend, on Evil Avatar, discussion about gamecube games being 70$can